Advanced Training in Spiritual Accompaniment

February 12, 2017

If you have completed either the Prayer Guide Trainingor the Ngihamba neNkosi course successfully, you are eligible to apply for the Spiritual Directors Training. (Acceptance to this training is by application and interview.) This is an intensive two year training in 8 modules of four days each giving a total pf 32 teaching days. It is offered in modular format to make it possible for people from all over the country to attend. This course requires the successful completion of 70 hours of supervised experience of offering spiritual direction and twelve essay assignments showing integration of the course theory.

Those who have successfully completed the Spiritual Direction Training and who have made the full Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius are eligible to apply for the Spiritual Exercises Training. This training is offered over four modules of four days each. It includes a close study of the text of the Spiritual Exercises and a variety of contemporary readings of and commentaries on the text. The 2017 course is fully subscribed but the next such training is likely to be offered in 2020.

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